Can we now all agree that voting for your local school board is important? Because local school boards have begun to lose their minds. For example, down in Tennessee, the McMinn County school board has become nationally famous this week for banning Art Spiegelman’s classic graphic novel, Maus. The minutes of the school board meeting leaked and, boy howdy, they are something else entirely.
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